Creamy Tomato Soup and Italian Patty Melts

"Another Rachael Ray recipe for those need a meal in a hurry! I saw this on today's show and thought it sounded really good. Thought I would post it on Zaar for safe keeping. I will sub turkey Italian sausage to cut the calories some."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
25
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot.
  • Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, celery into a food processor and grind until smooth.
  • Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil.
  • Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.
  • While soup cooks, make pesto and sammies.
  • Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed.
  • Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor. Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste.
  • Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again.
  • Transfer watercress paste to a bowl.
  • Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese. Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings.
  • Heat a griddle over medium high heat. Drizzle the pan with extra-virgin olive oil and add the patties and cook 5 minutes on each side.
  • Remove from the griddle and add another tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil and the peppers and onions.
  • Season the peppers and onions and cook until just tender, 5 minutes.
  • Remove them from the griddle.
  • Wipe the griddle clean and reduce heat to medium low.
  • Assemble sandwiches: place 4 slices of bread down, top with 1/4 each of the peppers onions, then a slice of cheese, a cooked sausage patty, another slice of cheese and then place bread on top.
  • Add butter to griddle and cook sammy melts 2 or 3 minutes on each side until golden and cheese is melted.
  • Press with spatula as sammies cook or set another heavy skillet on sammies to weigh them down.
  • Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup.
  • Cut the patty melts corner to corner and dip in the soup as you eat.

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  1. These are absolutely wonderful, although there is no way I can put this all together in 30 minutes (but close)! I even made the watercress pesto, which freezes nicely for later use. I have made this recipe several times now (and that extra pesto comes in handy). The soup is delicious and the sandwiches are a unique twist on a patty melt.
     
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